[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: wm0010: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2], introduced in C99:
struct foo { int stuff; struct boo array[]; };
By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning in case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which will help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being inadvertenly introduced[3] to the codebase from now on.
This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle.
[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html [2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21 [3] commit 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavo@embeddedor.com --- sound/soc/codecs/wm0010.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/sound/soc/codecs/wm0010.c b/sound/soc/codecs/wm0010.c index abd2defe7530..d7a882a6adf2 100644 --- a/sound/soc/codecs/wm0010.c +++ b/sound/soc/codecs/wm0010.c @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ struct dfw_binrec { u8 command; u32 length:24; u32 address; - uint8_t data[0]; + uint8_t data[]; } __packed;
struct dfw_inforec {
On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 02:05:49PM -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2], introduced in C99:
struct foo { int stuff; struct boo array[]; };
By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning in case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which will help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being inadvertenly introduced[3] to the codebase from now on.
This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle.
[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html [2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21 [3] commit 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavo@embeddedor.com
Acked-by: Charles Keepax ckeepax@opensource.cirrus.com
Thanks, Charles
The patch
ASoC: wm0010: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
has been applied to the asoc tree at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound.git
All being well this means that it will be integrated into the linux-next tree (usually sometime in the next 24 hours) and sent to Linus during the next merge window (or sooner if it is a bug fix), however if problems are discovered then the patch may be dropped or reverted.
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Thanks, Mark
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From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" gustavo@embeddedor.com Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 14:05:49 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] ASoC: wm0010: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2], introduced in C99:
struct foo { int stuff; struct boo array[]; };
By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning in case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which will help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being inadvertenly introduced[3] to the codebase from now on.
This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle.
[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html [2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21 [3] commit 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavo@embeddedor.com Acked-by: Charles Keepax ckeepax@opensource.cirrus.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200211200549.GA12072@embeddedor Signed-off-by: Mark Brown broonie@kernel.org --- sound/soc/codecs/wm0010.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/sound/soc/codecs/wm0010.c b/sound/soc/codecs/wm0010.c index 727d6703c905..fbcee21736e8 100644 --- a/sound/soc/codecs/wm0010.c +++ b/sound/soc/codecs/wm0010.c @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ struct dfw_binrec { u8 command; u32 length:24; u32 address; - uint8_t data[0]; + uint8_t data[]; } __packed;
struct dfw_inforec {
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